Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sep 18, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes How about adding a container around the geo that specifies the planet (or geoid, if you want to get extra fussy. You can say it defaults to WSGS-84, which is backwards compa

[uf-discuss] Microformats Extensions for Serendipity

2006-09-19 Thread Sebastian Küpers
Hey folks, if some of you use the blogging tool Serendipity, there are now a few microformats extensions available. Ceck out my blog post about it: http://pixelsebi.com/2006-09-19/microformats-extensions-for-serendipity/ Cheers, Sebastian ___ microfor

[uf-discuss] Q: visualisation of XFN

2006-09-19 Thread Thomas Hofmann
Hello everybody, has someone a viewable solution in CSS for displaying the attributes of XFN? thanks, Thomas ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

Re: [uf-discuss] Q: visualisation of XFN

2006-09-19 Thread Frances Berriman
A friend of mine recently wrote a post about displaying XFN attributes using attribute selectors: http://dsingleton.co.uk/archive/28/2006/09/12/ Of course, that has limitations on some browsers. On 9/19/06, Thomas Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody, has someone a viewable solu

Re: [uf-discuss] Q: visualisation of XFN

2006-09-19 Thread Matthew Levine
On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Thomas Hofmann wrote: has someone a viewable solution in CSS for displaying the attributes of XFN? Thomas, You can use advanced CSS selectors along with generated content to do a pretty decent job: a[rel]:after { content: " [" attr(rel) "]"; } This w

Re: [uf-discuss] Q: visualisation of XFN

2006-09-19 Thread Thomas Hofmann
Hello both, thanks so far. The attribute selectors were also my idea to a possibly solution. The blog posting gave me an advanced hint. The problem I was thinking about was also the combination of more than one value. As described in the post an override could be a solution. But then it is fixed,

[uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread John Allsopp
Hi all, it's very early, but I've just published a discussion and early draft proposal for hTagcloud. http://microformatique.com/?page_id=34 I tried as much as possible to follow the suggested process for proposing a microformats, and to document the process as I went along. It's posted

[uf-discuss] An attempt at a lint tool for XFN, rel-tag etc

2006-09-19 Thread Drew McLellan
I've made an attempt at hacking together a lightweight tool for checking usage of some of the @rel based microformats. Using the bookmarklet pattern (it's a link you save to your bookmarks bar and then click on a page to run the tool), I'm checking applied XFN values against a known list as well a

[uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
Way back in January 2005, Tantek Celik wrote on his blog: In the future one could imagine a CSS rule and perhaps a CSS property or two that would automatically transform and present [...] ISO8601 dates from 'title' att

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: species

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >There should, I believe, be a microformat for the markup of plant and >animal names, to include their scientific names. Work to date at: -- Andy Mabbett

[uf-discuss] Draft, plain-English intro to hCalendar.

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
I've created a draft, plain-English, page about hCalendar: comments and edits are welcome, but please bear in mind that the target audience for the page is web editors who re NOT tech-savvy. In particular, I've used a cludge for the end dat

Re: [uf-discuss] Draft, plain-English intro to hCalendar.

2006-09-19 Thread Gazza
Andy Mabbett mumbled the following on 19/09/2006 18:29: I've created a draft, plain-English, page about hCalendar: comments and edits are welcome, but please bear in mind that the target audience for the page is web editors who re NOT tech-

[uf-discuss] Employee number

2006-09-19 Thread Paul Denning
Within my company, a number of internal services use our employee number in the URL. I would like to have bookmarklets that can find and extract the employee number from the current page in my browser, then insert the employee number into a different URL for another internal service that uses

Re: [uf-discuss] Draft, plain-English intro to hCalendar.

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I would be unhappy with the sentence: > >"Wouldn't it be better if you could just click one button in your >browser, or follow one link, and be offered the option to add some or >all of the events to your diary, in one go? Well, tha

Re: [uf-discuss] Proposal: Lunar/ Mars co-ordinates (like "geo")

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Note multiple statements of Apollo landing co-ords here: > >http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsjcoords.html Yes, I did raise that. How do you suggest we resolve it? How about this, using the (simplified) Wikipedia markup, with th

[uf-discuss] i-names and hcard

2006-09-19 Thread Sebastian Küpers
hi folks, I just wanna share my thought with you, that i-names are a nice way to provide a universal uri to someone's hcard. in practice I have often changed my prefered location of my full hcard. so from now i can provide everybody one single uri for it: http://xri.net/=sebastian/+hcard (just t

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
*blink* wouldn't XOXO with rel=tag do the trick? The rating could be a value or (ludicrously) one could make each and hReview. Styling should be up to the site to figure out, and not the format. -- Singpolyma On 9/19/06, John Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, it's very early, but

Re: [uf-discuss] Employee number

2006-09-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Paul Denning wrote: Within my company, a number of internal services use our employee number in the URL. I would like to have bookmarklets that can find and extract the employee number from the current page in my browser, then insert the employee number into a

Re: [uf-discuss] An attempt at a lint tool for XFN, rel-tag etc

2006-09-19 Thread Chris Messina
Here's a shot in case you don't have any rel-values handy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/247623969/ Try it on my blogroll: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/roll Oh, the invisible things made visible...! Chris On 9/19/06, Drew McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've made an attempt at h

Re: [uf-discuss] An attempt at a lint tool for XFN, rel-tag etc

2006-09-19 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Wow! Nice! You may want to make it allow standard rels (like home) that are not microformats... it flagged some of my other stuff too (like rel=comments), but that's part of what it's supposed to do I guess :) Out of curiosity, what license is on the code? If it's ok, it might be nice to use s

Re: [uf-discuss] i-names and hcard

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Marks
On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Sebastian Küpers wrote: http://xri.net/=sebastian/+hcard (just try this url in your browser) at the moment it redirects you to my claimID account. but I can now change it to my blog for example and this url still remains the same. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/UR

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Ryan King
On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Way back in January 2005, Tantek Celik wrote on his blog: In the future one could imagine a CSS rule and perhaps a CSS property or two that would automatically transform and

Re: [uf-discuss] i-names and hcard

2006-09-19 Thread Sebastian Küpers
I take this link as an "I agree with you - XRI's are a good way to do it" :)) On 9/19/06, Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Sebastian Küpers wrote: > http://xri.net/=sebastian/+hcard (just try this url in your browser) > > at the moment it redirects you to my c

Re: [uf-discuss] Employee number

2006-09-19 Thread Ryan King
On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Paul Denning wrote: Within my company, a number of internal services use our employee number in the URL. I would like to have bookmarklets that can find and extract the employee number from the current page in my

Re: [uf-discuss] i-names and hcard

2006-09-19 Thread Kevin Marks
No, you can take that as meaning 'http redirects are easy to set up and XRI is an over-complex mess' Please read section 5 of it in full before replying here: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/URNsAndRegistries-50.html#iddiv1142306584 Having the xri http server be a host for your hCard 302 redirec

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Ben Ward
On 19 Sep 2006, at 21:08, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: rel=tag do the trick? The semantics of Rel-Tag would apply the tag to the current page, which wouldn't be correct. In the case of a tag cloud you're just linking to the tag pages, not indicating a relationship between the tag(s) and the

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> In the meantime, and as a test case, surely that could be done now, >>with >> a FireFox extension or GreaseMonkey script? >> >> (The former would be preferable from my PoV) > >Go for it! :) Er, that was me "going for it". --

Re: [uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

2006-09-19 Thread Scott Reynen
On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes In the meantime, and as a test case, surely that could be done now, with a FireFox extension or GreaseMonkey script? (The former would be preferable from my PoV) Go for it!

Re: [uf-discuss] An attempt at a lint tool for XFN, rel-tag etc

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Drew McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >If you'd like to see it in action, try running it on [...] I did, and in the results pop-up, the pale grey text on a pale buff background is very hard to read; please increase the contrast. -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
However, the point remains, is there a real need for a uF over XOXO for this? On 9/19/06, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 19 Sep 2006, at 21:08, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > rel=tag do the trick? The semantics of Rel-Tag would apply the tag to the current page, which wouldn't be correct.

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread John Allsopp
Stephen, However, the point remains, is there a real need for a uF over XOXO for this? I considered XOXO for the list of links, but "XOXO is a simple, open outline format" and I am not sure that this list is an outline. Hence the choice of just a standard list. As suggested elsewhere, an

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
And since an ordered list is, automatically, XOXO, that's why I made the suggestion. But I'll see what others have to say On 9/19/06, John Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen, > However, the point remains, is there a real need for a uF over XOXO > for this? I considered XOXO for the li

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread John Allsopp
Stephen And since an ordered list is, automatically, XOXO, that's why I made the suggestion. But I'll see what others have to say I'm not sure all ordered lists are XOXO, as in which case XOXO would not be required. Mu understanding is that XOXO is an ordered list which marks up an "out

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread David Janes
Why not reuse "rating" from hReview [1]. In particular, use 1.0 to indicate least popular, 5.0 most popular and use the abbr form [2]. Instead of: Web Standards Group Use: Web Standards Group Regards, etc... David [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview#Field_details [2] htt

Re: [uf-discuss] Employee number

2006-09-19 Thread Benjamin West
I do this kind of thing all the time. For example, I have something that allows me to transclude bug information across internal wiki's by including some javascript that looks for things like 345 . When the bookmarklet/javascript runs, it looks up the bug in the bug database and includes the inf

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread John Allsopp
David, Why not reuse "rating" from hReview [1]. In particular, use 1.0 to indicate least popular, 5.0 most popular and use the abbr form [2]. I like that as an initial suggestion, nice. So in fact it uses title, as dismissed by me, my bad ;-) j [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview#Field

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread David Janes
Cool. So then my #2 suggestion would be to rename it "hCloud", just because it looks nicer :-) Regards, etc... David On 9/19/06, John Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David, > Why not reuse "rating" from hReview [1]. In particular, use 1.0 to > indicate least popular, 5.0 most popular and use

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Dmitry Baranovskiy
Hi David, How to stylize it in this case to look as it usually looks on sites (with different font sizes, depending on weight)? best regards, Dmitry Baranovskiy On 20/09/2006, at 9:39 AM, David Janes wrote: Why not reuse "rating" from hReview [1]. In particular, use 1.0 to indicate least

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread David Janes
CSS selectors [1]. Regards, etc... David [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html On 9/19/06, Dmitry Baranovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi David, How to stylize it in this case to look as it usually looks on sites (with different font sizes, depending on weight)? best regards, Dmi

Re: [uf-discuss] An attempt at a lint tool for XFN, rel-tag etc

2006-09-19 Thread Drew McLellan
On 19 Sep 2006, at 21:14, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: Wow! Nice! You may want to make it allow standard rels (like home) that are not microformats... it flagged some of my other stuff too (like rel=comments), but that's part of what it's supposed to do I guess :) Yes, that's on the list. As I

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread John Allsopp
Dmitry, How to stylize it in this case to look as it usually looks on sites (with different font sizes, depending on weight)? while David's response is right, you can use the attribute selector, a big reservation I just remembered I had in my proposal with title is that IE6 doesn't do att

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 9/19/06 5:34 PM, "John Allsopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry, > >> How to stylize it in this case to look as it usually looks on sites >> (with different font sizes, depending on weight)? > > while David's response is right, you can use the attribute selector, > a big reservation I jus

Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread John Allsopp
Tantek, This is why I used nested EMs on the Technorati tag cloud markup. Only requires CSS1 selectors - works like a charm in IE. indeed. This is the big area noted for discussion in the proposal. Various methods have their plusses and minuses, which impact potential for developer adopt

Re: Re: [uf-discuss] a very early draft proposal hTagcloud

2006-09-19 Thread Chris Messina
On 9/19/06, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/19/06 5:34 PM, "John Allsopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry, > >> How to stylize it in this case to look as it usually looks on sites >> (with different font sizes, depending on weight)? > > while David's response is right, you can u